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Michael Servetus

1509 - 1553

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Michael Servetus (; Spanish: Miguel Servet; French: Michel Servet; also known as Michel Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553). He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry, and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Servetus is the 25th most popular physician (down from 15th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Spain (down from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Physician.

Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician and theologian who was born in 1511. He is most famous for his work on pulmonary circulation, which he published in 1553.

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Among physicians, Michael Servetus ranks 25 out of 726. Before him are Pedanius Dioscorides, Nestorius, Róbert Bárány, Cesare Lombroso, Georgius Agricola, and Cyril of Alexandria. After him are Allvar Gullstrand, Al-Zahrawi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, John Snow, Alois Alzheimer, and Christiaan Eijkman.

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Among people born in 1509, Michael Servetus ranks 2. Before him is John Calvin. After him are Şah Sultan, Daniele da Volterra, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Jan Matsys, John of Leiden, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Bernardino Telesio, Luis de Morales, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal, and Leone Leoni. Among people deceased in 1553, Michael Servetus ranks 5. Before him are Edward VI of England, François Rabelais, Şehzade Mustafa, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. After him are Şehzade Cihangir, Pedro de Valdivia, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Girolamo Fracastoro, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and Lucrezia de' Medici.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Michael Servetus ranks 65 out of 3,355. Before him are Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Jusepe de Ribera (1591), Pep Guardiola (1971), Roland (736), Abd al-Rahman III (889), and Felipe VI of Spain (1968). After him are Eugénie de Montijo (1826), Luis Suárez (1935), Al-Zahrawi (936), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Quintilian (35), and Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Spain

Among physicians born in Spain, Michael Servetus ranks 1. After him are Al-Zahrawi (936), Ibn Zuhr (1091), Severo Ochoa (1905), Joseph Calasanz (1556), Leander of Seville (534), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Petrus Alphonsi (1062), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Gregorio Marañón (1887), Concepción Aleixandre (1862), and Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1900).

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